Feigned Indignation: Of marauding exploiters, their “ethical qualms,” and a new proposal

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Sunday March 15, 2009 · 7:46 PM PDT

2009/03/15 · 19:46

By Jason Miller

Since there was little appetite for my recent polemic in which I advocated including necro-cannibalism as an integral part of our strategy to combat ecocide and world hunger, because very few appeared to take note of the fact that it was not my intention to carefully craft an update of Swift’s "A Modest Proposal" (I was actually hurling a hunk of concrete into the placid waters of the indoctrinated readers’ minds in order to observe the resultant splash and subsequent ripples), and since despite the depth of Homo rapien moral depravity and their sheer indifference to the suffering, murder, mayhem, and destruction that the human collective causes in order to satiate our desires and perpetuate the disease we call civilization, reader response indicated that the thought of eating our "fellow man" was taking things a bit too far, I’m advancing yet another potential solution to the myriad and complex maladies we’ve inflicted upon nonhuman animals, the Earth and ourselves.

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Monday March 09, 2009 · 7:59 PM PDT

2009/03/09 · 19:59

By Jason Miller

"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

"Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink" Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Saturday February 07, 2009 · 7:57 PM PST

2009/02/07 · 19:57

A Critique of Lee Hall, Friends of Animals, and the Franciombe Effect in the New Abolitionist Movement

By Steven Best and Jason Miller

"I am one of those who believe that it is the mission of this war to free every non-human animal in the United States. I am one of those who believe that we should consent to no peace which shall not be an Abolition peace. I am, moreover, one of those who believe that the work of animal liberationists will not have been completed until all the sentient beings of the Earth, shall have been admitted, fully and completely, into the moral circle of humanity. I look upon speciesism as going the way of all the earth. It is the mission of the war to put it down." —revision of a quote by MLK

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Tuesday February 03, 2009 · 10:04 AM PST

2009/02/03 · 10:04

By Jason Miller

"I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure."

—Agent Smith from The Matrix

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Monday December 29, 2008 · 8:00 PM PST

2008/12/29 · 20:00

By Jason Miller

Even the most ardent reactionaries, deluded ‘patriots,’ and apathetic cynics, whose myopic, Panglossian perspectives ensure that they continue to reflexively genuflect to the deeply criminal enterprise of American Capitalism and rationalize the savage imperialism of US foreign policy, are beginning to concede that we are in the midst of a crisis of epic proportions.

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Wednesday December 24, 2008 · 7:35 PM PST

2008/12/24 · 19:35

"Class is a dirty word in that it gets close to the truth about who governs and for whose benefit."

-Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti interviewed by Jason Miller

In the land of those who think they’re free and the home of savage capitalism, class is indeed a dirty word. Remember, we’re a nation of Joe the Plumbers. If we just work hard enough and fend off those socialist vampires who want to suck us dry by redistributing our hard-earned wealth, we can all be financial successes. And if you’re a faux-progressive presidential candidate—like Obama, you’re doomed to political perdition unless you sign a blood oath disavowing your ties to socialism.

Jason Miller

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Thursday November 20, 2008 · 11:56 AM PST

2008/11/20 · 11:56

Jason Miller interviewed by Robert Turnbull

11/19/08

Robert Turnbull: I guess I’ll start with a rather mundane question. How are you?

Jason Miller: I just looked at some horrific photos of extremely sick and emaciated people who suffer from a drug-resistant strain of TB and AIDS, so I’m feeling blessed because I’m relatively healthy and able to employ my personal strengths to carry out my purpose on Earth.

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 11:33 AM PST

2008/11/10 · 11:33

Melissa Gragg and Jason Miller interview Derrick Jensen

11/8/08

"Top priorities may not be any of those five. It may be continuing to stabilize the financial system. We don’t know yet what’s going to happen in January. And none of this can be accomplished if we continue to see a potential meltdown in the banking system or the financial system. So that’s priority number one, making sure that the plumbing works in our capitalist system."

—President-Elect Barack Obama

Ironically, it is the plumbing of that capitalist system that we are using as we flush the future of life on Earth down the toilet.

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 11:57 AM PDT

2008/10/28 · 11:57

Paul Watson interviewed by Jason Miller

Simulposted with Thomas Paine's Corner

"Well, as usual, you people have everything all upside down and turned around and back to front."

–Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon 2

As a species of beings that reflexively and unequivocally identifies itself as "superior," we human animals have taken self-deception to a level of inimitable brilliance. And we Americans who have self-servingly cast ourselves in the role of moral beacon to the world (while engaging in industrialized wholesale violence against humans, animals, and the Earth on a breath-taking scale) are the living embodiments of the word hypocrisy.

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 12:37 PM PDT

2008/10/03 · 12:37

By Jason Miller

10/2/08

Proudly surveying our kingdom from atop the capitalist pyramid, we US Americans have deluded ourselves into believing we are at the pinnacle of cultural, social, political, and economic evolution. We fancy ourselves to be so exceptional that we are entitled to a perpetual blessing from "our" Christian God.

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Monday September 15, 2008 · 11:49 AM PDT

2008/09/15 · 11:49

By Jason Miller

Savage animal slaughterer that she is, it’s apt that Sarah Palin has now brutally plunged a razor-sharp knife into the very heart of the seemingly invincible doubts concerning her capacity to be Vice-President of the United States. Wielding her chutzpah with the awe-inspiring deftness with which she employs her gun or rifle when hunting defenseless wolves or moose, she appeared on 20/20 and left our skepticism writhing on the ground in agony, immersed in its own blood and gasping its last.

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 6:28 PM PDT

2008/09/07 · 18:28

By Dr. Steve Best, Ph.D.

In 2002, arch-conservative Matthew Scully wrote a book called, Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to Mercy, that was universally and uncritically acclaimed by the animal advocacy movement. Because this movement is overwhelmingly single-issue in its focus, and in most cases doesn’t care about a person’s views or politics except how they relate to animals, no one had a problem with the fact that Scully was a senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He wrote some of the key fear-peddling diatribes that got Bush elected and he was recently re-enlisted to help Bush sell the Iraq war "surge" to the American people.

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